Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The change makes window resize feel a bit more sluggish in some cases (for example when repainting the whole toplevel is not very fast) since the frame doesn't follow the mouse when the window manager waits for the preview resize+repaint to complete, however there are no more grey unexposed areas when the user resizes windows. Though it works perfectly in Compiz and Metacity, kwin4 seems to need more polishing in its composition manager.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

After using Windows 7 for some time, I've noticed that it has a really nice feature that allows to automatically maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of the screen and restore a window from a maximized state by dragging its titlebar. I've implemented the same feature for metacity, the Gnome's window manager, and I find it very convenient. Lets hope it will be accepted upstream. Issue 578409 in bugzilla.

P.S. It's been a while since I blogged last time here and I made only a few blog posts in the corporate blog, well I have to say I am a terrible blogger, will see how it goes on.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

wow, Google added new feature to the Google Reader - trends view - very nice statistics about reading feed - now I know I've read more that 4000 items for the last 30 days. what a waste of time of mine. (g)

The one I don't understand is how do they calculate percent of read items - trends tell me all my feed has 100% read items. Is 'read' mean 'viewed by user'? If so, thats not true, since when reading with google reader I scroll throw all items reading titles, and read full articles (summaries and descriptions) only when title concerns me. I think there should be another trend like 'percent of viewed items' - 'viewed' like 'opened original source article'.